Work Successes

National oil and gas company - resolving a dispute with a local authority

Acuity represented a national oil and gas company further to its dispute with a Local Authority over its refusal to grant planning permission for a test borehole. The recent publicity surrounding the effects of fracking seemed to influence the Local Authority’s decision making process and it refused the application contrary to its own decision making criteria. We were able to successfully overturn this decision following a two day Public Inquiry which enabled the client to test of the presence of a potentially extractable gasses.